Vegetarian Star

Several athletes were featured on Los Angeles’ ABC KABC-TV for their plant-based diets.

Jacksonville Jaguars NFL player Montell Owens, MMA fighter Mac Danzig and tri-athlete Brendan Brazier all discussed how eating vegetarian and vegan has helped improve their performance.

Owens was motivated to change his diet after watching many of his friends and family suffer health problems due to diet.

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Mac Danzig. Credit Street Life on Wikipedia

“Don’t get me wrong, yes, I love animals … but if we were in a different day and age like 100 or 200 years ago then, sure, I would do whatever I had to do to live. If I had to be a hunter-gatherer then I would. I might feel bad about it, but I would respect the animals that I killed and I would eat meat. But things are different. We don’t live in that day and age anymore.”

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Actress Hayley Marie Norman is a vegan and regular contributor to the blog, This Dish Is Veg.

Norman had the privilege of attending the premiere of Forks Over Knives, a film about preventing and reversing major health conditions through a plant-based diet and has written about her experience.

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They’re rough. They throw punches. But they won’t bite you if you’ve ever had a mother.

Four MMA fighters who follow vegetarian diets were recently highlighted on the home page of UFC.com, the Ultimate Fighting Championship website.

Jake Shields, Mac Danzig, Aaron Simpson and Jon Fitch are four men that do a fine job of  representing both UFC and vegetarianaism.

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Mac Danzig. Credit Street Life on Wikipedia

After a temporary losing streak, Mac Danzig came out with a victory over Justin Buchholz in the UFC 109 event at Madalay Bay Events Center this weekend.

Must have loaded up on the seitan before the match.

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The UFC 109 Relentless event will be held at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada tomorrow and will be broadcast on pay per view.

The Ultimate Fighter 6 winner and veggie athlete Mac Danzig is set to compete against Justin Buchholz.

MMA Junkie recently spoke with Danzig and joked about how he left the limelight and got “fat,” while taking some time off.

“Never mind how you get fat as a vegan (answer: Trader Joe’s vegan oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and soy ice cream); he hadn’t taken off that much time since he got in the game almost nine years ago. “

Getting fat as a vegan sounds like the best way to go, since so many delicious egg-free and dairy-free desserts exist on the shelves today.

Plus, it’s easy to go back to your “lightweight” once you cut the sweets and eat only one tofu tamale instead of seven.

Danzig’s got high hopes for coming out a champion this weekend.

“Am I still good enough to still compete at this level of the sport and still have that fighting spirit? I feel I do,” he said.

“If he beats me fairly, then I feel like I should take a step back from that level of sport. But I’m confident. I truly believe I’m going to win.”

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Mac Danzig is featured in a new Xbox game that has already sold nearly half a million copies in 2 weeks!

UFC Undisputed features all the action of an Ultimate Fighting match. But you get spared the bruises while you munch on Tofurky Jurky.

From the website:

“UFC 2009 Undisputed is an explosive fighting game detailing the action, intensity and attitude of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Featuring an authentic and comprehensive UFC atmosphere, including an extensive roster of the best mixed martial arts fighters in the world. – UFC 2009 Undisputed is as real as it gets!”

Mac Danzig, who won The Ultimate Fighter Season 6,  keeps it real by following a vegan diet,  having a weakness for soy ice cream and vegan cookies. 

via Ecorazzi.com

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We love our veggie athletes, like Georges Laraque, so much, we can’t stop talking about them.

Which is why we’re proud to bring you “10 Superstar Athletes Who Don’t Eat Meat”, courtesy of treehugger.com.

First base man Prince Fielder made the list, along with famed vegetarian bodybuilder Bill Pearl, football quarterback Joe Namath, and Iron Man champ Dave Scott.

“Dave Scott holds the record for most Iron Man World Championship victories ever (along with his rival Mark Allen, who managed to rack up an equal number of wins). The Iron Man competition, which consists of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and a 26 mile marathon run, is one of the most strenuous physical feats in the world. And Scott won six of them, all while vegetarian. He even came out of retirement at 40 to compete again, and took second place. Today, at age 55, he still participates. In other words, this is one gnarly vegetarian dude.”

There’s just one problem, dude. Where’s Mac Danzig?

The Ultimate Fighter 6 winner and UFC contract holder has been a vegan since 2004 and has always been public about his diet to major media sources like Men’s Fitness. 

Ah, we get it. Someone must have drafted him before Treehugger got dibs.

Visit treehugger.com to view all 10 Superstar Athletes Who Don’t Eat Meat.

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